Re: [T3] CA smog check warning

["Bob" <bobap1950@hotmail.com>]

One of the problems in California is that the equipment used in the testing
is much better than it was years ago.  It is also testing for emissions that
were not tested for years ago. The State seems to be changing the equipment
required for testing every few years. The smog test in California are
extremely strict and if a company has to many customers passing the test,
the state will investigate them. I know of people with cars in very good
condition that have had problems getting their cars to pass the test.  Also
as cars get older, the parts, including smog control parts are getting
harder to find. The State of California is much stricter than any other
State that I have been in. The ultimate goal of many is to simply get the
older cars off the roads and into the junk yards.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>
To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [T3] CA smog check warning


> On 28 Dec 2000, at 8:16, Hal Sullivan wrote:
>
> >  CARB looks to eliminate emissions testing exemption!
>
> Perhaps most of you already understand this, but just for those that
> don't, I'd like to clarify something here that comes up often and is
> often misunderstood.
>
> It is my understanding that states which do emissions testing of
> cars, including older cars, only require that those older cars meet
> the standards THAT WERE IN PLACE WHEN THOSE CARS WERE FIRST SOLD.
>
> If you stop an think about it for only a second you will realize that
> this is the only practical thing that they could do, since there are
> really no cars out there which ever met standards more stringent than
> a couple of years later than their year of manufacture (except for
> those years when there were NO standards.)
>
> So a requirement that a 66 meet 66 standards is really not too much
> to ask, especially considering that there weren't any standards at
> all before 67 or 68 (to my knowledge.)
>
> -
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> Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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